Letters: North County, Jan. 23, 2013

Don’t we care about our children?

Evidently, we don’t care about our children.

America has a do-it-yourself culture. We provide our own jobs, our own homes, our own food. We provide for our own security. The average family in America has a firearm in their home. But, the elite politician lives in a different culture and he has armed guards. That influences their political decisions.

We guard our airports. We guard our hospitals. We guard our courthouses. Some of you may have noticed, we now guard many of our churches. We don’t guard our children. For some political reason, we treat our own children with less care than a carry-on bag at the airport.

You’d sue a private company out of business if they kept destroying your luggage or losing your bags. Yet, we let hundreds of thousands of our children be injured at public schools every year. We let our children and our neighbor’s children be kidnapped from public schools.

A politician will use every crisis, and now we let our Constitution be further perverted because we won’t say, enough.

Rob Morse

Vista

A dedicated scientist

I read the article, “Polar treks add up for mathematician,” in the Jan. 12 U-T with interest because it presents the work of a dedicated scientist. He develops a theory and then goes to the Poles to validate his concept, demonstrating the application of established scientific methods.

I have written several letters, most recently on Oct. 28, Dec. 6 and Dec. 26 in the North County Times, identifying inconsistencies and anomalies in the claim by Jeffrey Bada and the commenter, “ProfBada,” that CO2 increase is the major factor in global warming.

In those letters, I have requested that they provide the reference that defines the validation procedure for their claim, using the temperature increase contained in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration charts. This would be a procedure similar to that used by Ken Golden, where the theory is validated by using real data.

All I have received have been snide remarks. I therefore conclude that the required validation does not exist and, in this case, Jeffrey Bada and his cohorts exemplify pseudo science.

Michael Woolley

Escondido

What’s the agenda?

Regarding the recent, tragic school shooting of 20-plus humans and the government- and media-fueled, and agenda-driven, fear-mongering, please consider these facts for perspective.

According to the Centers for Disease Control website, an estimated 443,000 Americans die from smoking every year. That’s a staggering 1,214 American deaths each and every day. In addition, of an estimated 88 million nonsmoking Americans, 54 percent of children between the ages of 3 and 11 are exposed to deadly secondhand smoke. Talk about child abuse and a national crisis/emergency. ...

Alcohol kills some 75,000 Americans each year. ...

Now if our criminally complicit federal government “really” cared about “the children” and saving lives, they’d immediately and easily put an end to tobacco-, alcohol-related deaths. So, why don’t they? What’s the agenda? Clearly, Marxist Barack Hussein Obama, et al, are trying to neutralize our Second Amendment constitutional right to own and bear arms, which is the ultimate check on a despotic government, as our founders well knew.

Gary Walker

Escondido

Seau and football brain injuries

Football is probably the most violent sport known to man, other than the cage-fighting on television. This is all due to the Neanderthal mentality of the players regarding violence and the fact they are fully protected by body armor.

Football players are taught to lead with their heads from the moment they begin to learn the game. Australian rugby is as tough as football and they do not use helmets and you rarely see serious injuries in games. There is hardly the number of concussions caused by head-to-head contact so prevalent in U.S. football.

As long as there is a goal-line stand, a fourth and inches play or a touchdown that needs to be made in order to win the game (the back diving headfirst over the linemen at the goal line), there will always be the danger of a head-to-head, head-to-knee or head-to-ground trauma. The helmet only protects the players from bloody skull injuries. It does not protect against concussions.

Physics teaches us that for every action, there is a like reaction. Get rid of the helmets. It’ll go a long way in preventing irreparable brain damage and/or save lives.

Bob Kim

Carlsbad

Child and school safety or gun profits?

It should have been mandatory for each executive at every U.S. gun manufacturer to attend the funeral services of all of those young children and view those little 7-year-old bodies riddled with up to 11 rounds of ammunition in each.

Then they, the gun manufacturers, should be made to come up with plans and ideas for legislation that could be implemented to reduce or minimize this type of mass slaughter and not be able to hide behind their lobbyist smoke screen, the National Rifle Association.

Why are they still not held accountable to help with deterring such devastation? It’s their design of weapons and ammunition that has enabled this mayhem and our “do nothing” congressional delegates who have been bought off by them that still allow it to be repeated again and again.

Please let your congress member know that you will not accept the “status quo” vote and want protection for your children, not gun manufacturers and their $12 billion per year profits.

Stop the madness, now. Killing our children is not a Second Amendment right.

Jerry Mozina

Vista

A warning to readers

I had my vehicle registration and insurance card stolen out of the vehicle. I’m not sure what they want with them, but I’m sure it’s not good.

They dumped everything on the floor and looked in all the places where there might be valuables or electronics, but as I didn’t have such in the car, only the registration was stolen.

Several pickup trucks in the neighborhood were also gone through, but nothing was taken. Apparently, only the Toyota car registration was wanted. The tags and plates were not touched.

I have been told that this is a common crime now. So lock your cars and be aware.

Elaina Blankinship

Vista

Clinton’s State Department is an empty vessel

The recent report from the State Department investigation of the attack on our consulate — needlessly costing the lives of our ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya — confirms that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been commanding an empty bureaucratic vessel of “systemic failures” with impunity, replete with implausible denials and unaccountability.

Indeed, Secretary Clinton’s lackluster tour of duty at state — aimlessly traveling the world — serving the Obama administration’s lack of leadership and do-nothing philosophy in foreign policy, has allowed the Middle East to explode into the Islamic extremist takeover of Egypt, the unfettered expansion of Al Qaeda, massacres in Syria, the growth of Taliban power in Pakistan and the advance of Iranian nuclear ambitions. Needless to say, the Obama/Clinton foreign policy is seriously diminishing our national security, which comes as no surprise, considering President Obama’s flagship leading congressional Democrat soldiers and a bureaucratic armada of liberal fools in ideological battle babble — swelled with reckless over-regulating, borrowing, taxing, spending and debt — irreparably damaging our economy and our freedoms.